REDISCOVERING ZEN’S ROOTS IN ANCIENT CHINA

Join us Apr 6 - 8 for Rediscovering Zen's Roots in Ancient China with philosopher David Hinton who teaches at Columbia University. His books include Existence: A Story, The Wilds of Poetry, and his translation of the Ch'an classic No-Gate Gateway (Wu-men Kuan) is forthcoming.

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I sat my first Rohatsu last year. On the eighth and final morning—the day Buddha traditionally is said to have awakened under the rising morning star—seventy-seven of us sat so still in the zendo that you could hear a pin drop. The temple floors looked like soft water reflecting our black silhouettes, shadows murmuring back […]

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These dharma talks given by Joshin and Genzan during this Sesshin were inspired by some of the enlightenment stories from the Denkōroku written in 1300.

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This series explores Dogen’s seminal text, Genjokoan, as a way to explore the “issues at hand” in our lives and to encourage us along the path of awakening.

I started my journey with the homeless community in 2010 after I had been accepted into the Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy Program. I wanted to get some experience working in situations that were new to me and that I thought would challenge me. My second contact with the homeless community came as I was volunteering with […]

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This series explores Dogen’s seminal text, Genjokoan, as a way to explore the “issues at hand” in our lives and to encourage us along the path of awakening.

You were a great team, compassionate, resilient, skillful, and kind. I have heard from many of our Nepali friends. We became a deep-hearted sangha through these many days, and have touched each others’ lives in countless ways.

An update from Tsering Wangmo, Dolpo Nurse, and member of Upaya’s 2017 Nomads Clinic Team: Reflecting on my Nomad’s Clinic journey, Dolpo, 2017, besides the great time I had walking through the mountains with a community of compassionate people, the clinics that we ran were the greatest sources of learning, happiness, and sharing for me. […]